Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Daughter is a fantastic adventure with unique gameplay that blends investigation, action and exploration for an extraordinary experience that will test the limits of your nerves…
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter is an adventure developed by Frogwares, released 10 June 2016 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 12 hrs to finish.
What Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter is
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter is an adventure game developed by Frogwares and released in 2016. It was published by Bigben Interactive. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 3.
The premise, in the publisher's words
What could have led Katelyn, Sherlock Holmes’s adoptive daughter, to 221B Baker Street? Did she uncover the dark truth about her father? And who is the charming clairvoyant who has moved in to 221C? Will Holmes’s implacable logic calm a whirlwind tearing at his emotions as he is confronted by fatherly love, occult rituals and a desire for vengeance? For the first time in his prestigious career, the most illustrious of detectives must fight not to reveal a secret, but to keep one… Play as the master detective himself, plunged into a fantastic adventure brimming with intense action sequences. Track down evil in the darkest corners of London and the depths of the human soul, freely explore…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, mystery, open world and thriller. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 25 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Sherlock Holmes series
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter is the 31st of 55 entries we hold in the Sherlock Holmes series. It arrived a year after Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: Collection. The next entry was Shall we date?: Guard Me, Sherlock! in 2016. Its critic score of 67 is almost exactly the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened at 82.
How it was received
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter holds a critic score of 67 out of 100. That places it above 29% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 70, across 119 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 12 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for INTEL Core i3 3.6GHz / AMD FX Series 4.2GHz Quad-Core, 6 GB RAM and 1024 MB 100% DirectX 11 compatible AMD Radeon HD 7790 / NVIDIA GeForce 460 GTX. An 6GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 20GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter launched on 10 June 2016, within three weeks of Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch, Inside and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Mirror's Edge Catalyst, Overwatch, Inside, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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